I encrypted my D Drive while back, went to reformat C: (both seperate HDD) once finished everything, logged back in windows click on my backup or data drive (D:) it says "Drive D is not formatted? Do you want to format it now?" And it has the yes no options.

Please if anyone can help me get this back ill be the happiest person alive. I have so much important stuff on that drive and I didnt expect that to happen.

The thing is, I cant find the program anymore. I also had to clear the master boot record because I had a linux partition on their as well. The only thing on my drive now is basic windows. No programs install nothing. I dont want to format drive D just incase I can get all my stuff back.

Hi logicsolutions I am not sure if this is relevant but the fact you mention>> I had a linux partition on their as well.
How did you reformat the drive after Linux?
I have borrowed this from a friend who had partition problem.
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Here is how to uninstall linux and have a virgin hdd.

If you really wanted to "uninstall" Linux, you could run the following two commands (from under DOS or MS Windows)
which will get rid of LILO--it overwrites the master boot record (MBR) of your first hard drive, where LILO resides. The "lock" command allows "raw" writing to disk, which is normally disallowed on more recent DOS versions as an antiviral measure. The problem with FDISK/MBR is that it does not report back any success or failure, so it is better to proceed it with the "lock" command. After this you can remove the Linux partitions using the DOS "FDISK" utility to re-claim the hard drive space.

Apparently, MS FDISK does not always cope with removing the Linux partitions. In this case, I may use linux fdisk. The simplest may be to boot from the Linux installation floppy/CD, and to remove the partition using the Linux partitioning tool when it pops up during the "installation" procedure. After that I abort the "installation" and Linux is gone.

if only you could remember what program you used to encrypt the drive maybe we could find it for you again.
what you need is something more like a bootmanager capable of encrypting a filesystem and decrypting it at boot time.

I deleted the Linux O/S by using partition magic. SuSE Automatically creates the partition for you (uses space from drive c:) I just deleted the partition it created etc. Then for me not to have problems during boot up i cleared the MBR.

I may be wrong in this but if you encrypt files under NTFS filesystem and then you wipe out that user account (ie. reformatting the OS drive) aren't you totally out of luck? I know that at my work I've come across this very situation. A user will encrypt a folder then for some reason delete the user account. They save the files but you can't access them. Even if you recreate the user account because to Windows its not the same account, just the same name.

May not apply to this situation if you didn't encrypt using the NTFS encrption.

The only option you have is to see if you can restore your old OS. It may be possible because you had linux and windows. Hopefully the linux partition was on the first portion of your hard drive and Windows was on the next portion (that way the sectors for Windows was not overwritten).

You can either do the data recovery yourself or bring it to a professional. A utility i use sometimes that seems work is GetDataBack.

There's a very low success rate for this option but it's better than the 0% you currently have.

Do you have the original keystore file?
DCPP can not see if it is encrypted because the key which was used do encrypt it, is not in
the keystore file. Without this key there is no way of decrypting the partition."